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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 01:12 PM Jan 2019

Mike Pence Says 'ISIS Has Been Defeated' Hours After Deadly Bombing Kills American Troops

Source: Mediaite



by Tommy Christopher | Jan 16th, 2019, 11:52 am 115

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Speaking at the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference on Wednesday morning, Pence told the crowd that “Thanks to the leadership of this Commander-in-Chief,and the courage and sacrifice of our armed, forces we’re now actually able to begin to hand off the fight against ISIS in Syria.”

As the crowd cheered, Pence declared “We are bringing our troops home. The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated!”

Hours earlier, CNN had aired footage of a suicide attack in Manbij, a U.S.-patrolled city in Syria, an attack which claimed the lives of an as-yet-undetermined number of American troops, and for which ISIS has claimed responsibility.

Pence made no mention of the attack in his speech. Thus far, the only comment from the White House has been a statement from Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, which said that “The President has been fully briefed and we will continue to monitor the ongoing situation in Syria. For any specific questions please contact the Department of Defense.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/mike-pence-says-isis-has-been-defeated-hours-after-deadly-bombing-kills-american-troops/



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Mike Pence Says 'ISIS Has Been Defeated' Hours After Deadly Bombing Kills American Troops (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
We assume he was getting his "news" from FOX and NOT CNN!!! Laf.La.Dem. Jan 2019 #1
Like Donny, maybe Pence doesn't read his daily intel briefings IronLionZion Jan 2019 #11
Is that moron also volunteering to go make fun of the families of the lost troops? Moostache Jan 2019 #2
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Aristus Jan 2019 #3
Yep. They never fucking learn. Freethinker65 Jan 2019 #6
I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency - Dick n/t hibbing Jan 2019 #12
You mean the Trump administration, right? TheCowsCameHome Jan 2019 #16
Pence is a ill-informed liar like tRump. The military deserves better from it's civilian leaders. usaf-vet Jan 2019 #4
I'll-informed? Cracklin Charlie Jan 2019 #10
"ill-informed?" usaf-vet Jan 2019 #17
Up is down IronLionZion Jan 2019 #5
1984 - George Orwell, a book everyone should read Perseus Jan 2019 #9
Isn't it amazing how accurate these authors portrayed what is now happening? pazzyanne Jan 2019 #22
Add Catch-22. nt akraven Jan 2019 #24
"It was miraculous. Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2019 #31
The WH of alternative facts and delusion. democratisphere Jan 2019 #7
Pence is a joke, and shows a clear lack of leadership that the office of the VP demands. NT SWBTATTReg Jan 2019 #8
This could be the single biggest story of the year.Vice President tells a stupid, insensitive lie. Stuart G Jan 2019 #13
Mother should take him to the woodshed. TheCowsCameHome Jan 2019 #14
Another "Mission Accomplished" gaffe. C Moon Jan 2019 #15
Far worse...Reflects the entire Trump administration... Stuart G Jan 2019 #18
Wakey, wakey, Mike. area51 Jan 2019 #19
Pentecostal pence is a pathological liar. gademocrat7 Jan 2019 #20
Fake news,Pastor Mike. sinkingfeeling Jan 2019 #21
republican lies are dangerous for America Achilleaze Jan 2019 #23
UPDATE - 2:34 p.m. ET: The White House and the vice president have both released statements offering riversedge Jan 2019 #25
"Sympathies and love" - it's the new Thoughts And Prayers! hatrack Jan 2019 #28
If this doesn't do them in cilla4progress Jan 2019 #26
. Kurt V. Jan 2019 #27
Wait, I thought putin's puppet ... LenaBaby61 Jan 2019 #29
Yes, he said that ISIS was defeated. Dave Starsky Jan 2019 #30

IronLionZion

(45,457 posts)
11. Like Donny, maybe Pence doesn't read his daily intel briefings
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 01:55 PM
Jan 2019

Donny is probably illiterate, but Pence doesn't have an excuse.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. Is that moron also volunteering to go make fun of the families of the lost troops?
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 01:15 PM
Jan 2019

What a tone deaf asshat fool...no wonder he fits in with the Trump administration well.

Mission Accomplished Part II

usaf-vet

(6,189 posts)
4. Pence is a ill-informed liar like tRump. The military deserves better from it's civilian leaders.
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 01:27 PM
Jan 2019

My condolences to the families of the fallen servicemen.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
10. I'll-informed?
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 01:49 PM
Jan 2019

He was surely informed on the facts.

That he knew the facts, and instead delivered propaganda instead of information renders him unfit to finish his charge.

Remove the traitors, Washington!
That is your charge!

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
9. 1984 - George Orwell, a book everyone should read
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 01:48 PM
Jan 2019

along with "Animal Farm" by George Orwell as well, and "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
22. Isn't it amazing how accurate these authors portrayed what is now happening?
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 03:05 PM
Jan 2019

I remember reading these books when I was in high school and thinking "No way". Although many times over the years since reading them, many things have happened that bring the messages from these books to the forefront. Today they are spot on and it is almost a hundred years later.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
31. "It was miraculous.
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 10:54 PM
Jan 2019

It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue, slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it, it required no brains at all. It merely required no character."

Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"

And that Ladies and Gentlemen is what we have in the WH. Pence is just an extension.

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
13. This could be the single biggest story of the year.Vice President tells a stupid, insensitive lie.
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 02:20 PM
Jan 2019

American Troops killed and VP states a lie and says we have won! (when we lost)

How does anyone explain this?? k and r

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
18. Far worse...Reflects the entire Trump administration...
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 02:27 PM
Jan 2019

The Army doesn't know how many of our troops were killed by the enemy, but the war is over according to Pence.

sure..and this is the end.!!!! The Vice President has made a ..

.................total fool of himself and the President..

area51

(11,911 posts)
19. Wakey, wakey, Mike.
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 02:34 PM
Jan 2019

You might want to get your information from something other than Faux propaganda channel.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
23. republican lies are dangerous for America
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 03:11 PM
Jan 2019

republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America
republican lies are dangerous for America

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
25. UPDATE - 2:34 p.m. ET: The White House and the vice president have both released statements offering
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 04:50 PM
Jan 2019

UPDATE – 2:34 p.m. ET: The White House and the vice president have both released statements offering sympathies to the service members who died from the explosion.












hatrack

(59,587 posts)
28. "Sympathies and love" - it's the new Thoughts And Prayers!
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 05:11 PM
Jan 2019

Nice effort, Sar-uh huh-huh-huh-huh Huckabee!!

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
29. Wait, I thought putin's puppet ...
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:30 PM
Jan 2019

said that Isis was DEFEATED, and that ALL was perfect over in Syria, so that meant that we could bring our troops HOME 🤔

The big, fat, Adderall-addicted, insane, racist, treasonous, 7,000 plus lies told and climbing HOG is so in love with and yet frightened to DEATH of his puppet-master Vlad, that he doesn't even care about anything but pleasing him or ELSE I'll let out all of OUR secret dealings and talk about your money-laundering with me and WORSE, which is why Fatso contacts him secretly and on the regular. Fattie, fattie two by four doesn't CARE about our troops, this country, it's citizens, federal employees, or about anything negatively affecting this country, let alone about Syria turning into a powder keg, because his puppet master/black-mailing murdering buddy Vlad told him to leave Syria, or ELSE. The USA is about to leave NATO after 70 years, and most folks in this country don't realize what this will mean, or have any clues how badly this country and world will be destabilized and knocked off it's global foundation. This is the USSA, and not the USA any longer thanks to tReasonous tRump and his buddy Vlad.

Today's bombing that killed 4 of our soldiers, in what was seen as a "safe" place which had been patrolled by our military in Syria was a direct message sent to putin's amoral, treasonous fat ass HOG of a puppet.

RUSSIA'S WINNING. RUSSIA'S WINNING. RUSSIA'S WINNING. RUSSIA'S WINNING.


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